Railway-track structure.



No. 825,172. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

' v. ANGERER.

RAILWAY TRACK STRUCTURE.

APPLICATION EILED APR. 26, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR ANGERER, OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM\VHARTON. JR, & COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented July 3, 1906.

uman filed April 26, 1906. Serial No. 313,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, V IOTOR ANGERER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Railway-Track Structures, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in j oints benveen railsand track structurcs.

The object of my invention is to provide means for firmly seating andholding the rail to the structure.

In carrying out my invention I preferably make a space between the armsof the track structure and the body of the rail, so that a fillingmaterial may be inserted to provide an extended bearing for the railboth laterally and vertically, which will prevent wear of the securingparts and will also lock the securing par-Ls in place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating myimproved joint. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the arms of a railstrucLure, the structure being in section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a transverse sec.ional view on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, showing therail in place prior to the introduction of the molten metal. Fig. 4 is asectional view on the same line, showing the complete joint; and Figs. 5and 6 are views of modifications of my invention.

A is the railway-track structure, which may be of any form desired. Inthe present instance the drawings illustrate the end portion of arailway-frog having two projections A and A Each of these projectionshas two arms a a, shaped to conform to the rail to be introduced betweenthe arms.

B is a rail, in the present instance of the girder type, having a headI; and a guard Z), a web 6 and a base-flange If. The groove between thehead and the guard alines with the groove a in the track structure A.

The arms are of a sufficient distance apart so that there will be aclear space between said arms and the rail, as clearly illustrated inFig. 3, and in order to secure the rail firmly to the track structure Imount in the present instance spacing-blocks i ion the shoulders of thearms, so that the head of the rail will rest upon these blocks.

I perforate the arms of the track structure at c and also perforate theweb b of the rail at c, and when the rail is mounted in position a wedgeC is driven through the perforations c c, the upper surface of the wedgebeing in contact with the upper walls of the slot 0 and the lower edgeof the wedge being in contact with the upper wall of the slot 0 in therail, and as the wedge is driven the rail is drawn down onto thespacing-block i until it is firmly fixed in proper alinement.

I preferably use two or more wedges, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 but onewedge may be used, if desired. After the wedges are driven in place thefilling metal in a molten state is poured into the space between therail and the arms of the track structure, as clearly shown in Fig. 4,filling the entire space, so as to form an extended bearing for the railboth laterally and vertically. This bearing will prevent wear of thesecuring parts and will also look the wedge in place, as it will benoted in Fig. 4 that the molten metal will enter the unoccupied portionsof the slots in the rail and track structure. One end of the wedge maybe turned up, as shown in Fig. 4, to prevent its accidental withdrawal,or the sides of the wedge may be roughened, as shown in Fig. 5, so thatthe molten metal may engage these roughened portions, or the end of thewedge may have a screw-threaded portion, as shown in Fig. 6, on which ismounted a nut 0 In fact, any device may be used to hold the wedges inposition.

While I have illustrated my invention in Figs. 1 to 4, both inclusive,in connection with a rail structure in which the arms are the same depthas the base-flange of the rail, the arms may be less in depth than thebase rail or may be elongated, as shown in Fig. 5, and may be united bya member extending under the rail, as shown in Fig. 6, without departingfrom the essential feature of my invention.

I claim 1. The combination of a track structure having arms, a railmounted in the space between. the arms, spacing-blocks, and means fordrawing the rail firmly in contact with the spacing-blocks,substantially as described.

2. The combination of a track structure having arms, a rail mountedbetween the arms, the inner surface of the arms being shaped so as toallow a spacebetween the arms and the rail, spacing-blocks in the space,E the head 01 the rail and the arms, slots in the means for drawing therail firmly in contact Web of the rail and in the arms, and a wedge withthe spacing-blocks, and filling metal arranged to be driven through theslots so as cast into the space forming a seat for the rail 1' to drawthe rail down upon the spacing- 5 beyond the spacing-blocks,substantially as described.

3. The combination of a track structure having arms, a rail mountedbetween the arms, the arms being spaced a sufficient dis- [0 tance apartto allow for the insertion of filling metal between them and the rail,spacingblocks mounted between the under side of blocks, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

VICTOR ANGERER. l/Vitnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, Jos. H. KLEIN.

